This book constitutes the strictly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT '96, held in Kyongju, Korea, in November 1996. The 31 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully selected from a total of 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on discrete log based systems, efficient algorithms, hash functions and block cyphers, cryptographic protocols, signature and identification, visual secret sharing, key distribution, Boolean functions, electronic cash, special signatures, stream ciphers, and hard problems.

ASIACRYPT’98, the international conference covering all aspects of theory and application of cryptology and information security, is being held at Beijing Friendship Hotel from October 18 to 22. This is the fourth of the Asiacrypt conferences. ASIACRYPT’98 is sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Asiacrypt Steering Committee (ASC), in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptology Research (IACR). The 16-member Program Committee organized the scientific program and considered 118 submissions. Of these, 32 were accepted for presentation. The authors’ affiliations of the 118 submissions and the 32 accepted papers range over 18 and 13 countries or regions, respectively. The submitted version of each paper was sent to all members of the Program Committee and was extensively examined by at least three committee members and/or outside experts. The review process was rigorously blinded and the anonymity of each submission are maintained until the selection was completed. We followed the traditional policy that each member of the Program Committee could be an author of at most one accepted paper. These proceedings contain the revised versions of the 32 contributed talks as well as a short note written by one invited speaker. Comments from the Program Committee were taken into account in the revisions. However, the authors (not the committee) bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security. This book presents papers on attacks on hash functions, stream ciphers and boolean functions, biometrics and ECC computation, id-based schemes, public-key schemes, RSA and factorization, and more.

ASIACRYPT 2000 was the sixth annual ASIACRYPT conference. It was sp- sored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in - operation with the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE). The ?rst conference with the name ASIACRYPT took place in 1991, and the series of ASIACRYPT conferences were held in 1994, 1996, 1998, and 1999, in cooperation with IACR. ASIACRYPT 2000 was the ?rst conference in the series to be sponsored by IACR. The conference received 140 submissions (1 submission was withdrawn by the authors later), and the program committee selected 45 of these for presen- tion. Extended abstracts of the revised versions of these papers are included in these proceedings. The program also included two invited lectures by Thomas Berson (Cryptography Everywhere: IACR Distinguished Lecture) and Hideki Imai (CRYPTREC Project – Cryptographic Evaluation Project for the Japanese Electronic Government). Abstracts of these talks are included in these proce- ings. The conference program also included its traditional “rump session” of short, informal or impromptu presentations, kindly chaired by Moti Yung. Those p- sentations are not re?ected in these proceedings. The selection of the program was a challenging task as many high quality submissions were received. The program committee worked very hard to evaluate the papers with respect to quality, originality, and relevance to cryptography. I am extremely grateful to the program committee members for their en- mous investment of time and e?ort in the di?cult and delicate process of review and selection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2001, held in Gold Coast, Australia in December 2001. The 33 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on lattice based cryptography, human identification, practical public key cryptography, cryptography based on coding theory, block ciphers, provable security, threshold cryptography, two-party protocols, zero knowledge, cryptographic building blocks, elliptic curve cryptography, and anonymity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2005, held in Chennai, India in December 2005.The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 237 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebra and number theory, multiparty computation, zero knowledge and secret sharing, information and quantum theory, privacy and anonymity, cryptanalytic techniques, stream cipher cryptanalysis, block ciphers and hash functions, bilinear maps, key agreement, provable security, and digital signatures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO'97, held in Santa Barbara, California, USA, in August 1997 under the sponsorship of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The volume presents 35 revised full papers selected from 160 submissions received. Also included are two invited presentations. The papers are organized in sections on complexity theory, cryptographic primitives, lattice-based cryptography, digital signatures, cryptanalysis of public-key cryptosystems, information theory, elliptic curve implementation, number-theoretic systems, distributed cryptography, hash functions, cryptanalysis of secret-key cryptosystems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2002, held in Singapore, in December 2002. The 34 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions on the basis of 875 review reports. The papers are organized in topical sections on public key cryptography, authentication, theory, block ciphers, distributed cryptography, cryptanalysis, public key cryptanalysis, secret sharing, digital signatures, applications, Boolean functions, key management, and ID-based cryptography.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Financial Cryptography, FC'99, held in Anguilla, British West Indies in February 1999. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in sections on electronic commerce, anonymity control, fraud management, public-key certificates, steganography, content distribution, anonymity mechanisms, auctions and markets, and distributed cryptography.